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First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, upon the Inductive Method of Instruction

First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic, upon the Inductive Method of Instruction (1821) Inferred

Warren Colburn (1793–1833) · 1821

InferredWarren Colburn's arithmetic text, either First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic or Arithmetic: Being a Sequel to First Lessons, introduced inductive methods to American mathematics instruction and was in use at Prescott's school.

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Documented 1824

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Warren Colburn's arithmetic text, either First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic or Arithmetic: Being a Sequel to First Lessons, introduced inductive methods to American mathematics instruction and was in use at Prescott's school.